Try the 2.6.4 beta version. We now have a new custom 64bit build of comskip donator. It’s much faster than the old comskip and has some nice features:
- Support for direct decoding for AV1, HEVC, H264, MPEG2, VP9, VP8 and many more codecs and containers
- Support for hardware decoding (currently limited to Intel QSV and Nvidia CUVID). These only support newer GPU’s, e.g. won’t work with Intel Sandy Bridge. The earliest intel chipset we could get qsv hardware decoding to work is Skylake (9th gen).
- Support for 8K resolution
With this release remuxing has also been optimized so it won’t remux as much when using our build of comskip (it still retains compatibility for the stock comskip and free comskip builds but it will be slower with those builds), esp when decoding codecs like AV1.
Regarding hardware acceleration for decoding with comskip, you’ll need to manually enable it for now from the Conversion task → Expert settings → Comskip options
Here you can enter --qsv if you have an Intel chipset or --cuvid if you have a Nvidia gpu.
Try it out and let us know how it goes for you. For comparison we have seen no improvement in comskip performance when decoding h264 source videos, ~30%-50% improvement when decoding HEVC/H.265 source videos. The one thing we haven’t been able to test is decoding performance of comskip on AV1 source videos. If you have chipsets which can decode AV1 files feel free to try it out and post your results back to us. If you need an AV1 source video test, just use MCEBuddy’s AV1 profile to create a AV1 video output. The logs will show you the average FPS for comskip (and total time taken). We have seen 1500+fps for HEVC files when using hardware decoding.
Note: The reason we haven’t enabled hardware decoding for comskip by default is becuase we’ve noticed that it tends to hang if the underlying chipset is too old or unsupported, we will likely optimize that in future.